Socio-cultural influences on self-evaluation
Socio-cultural influences on self-evaluation
The need for a positively valued self is a human universal. How that need manifests, however, is shaped by culture, which serves as a powerful form of normative and informational influence. This chapter reviews the empirical literature demonstrating that desire for high self-esteem and the corresponding motivations of self-enhancement and self-protection have (a) pancultural presence, (b) cultural manifestation, and (c) a pancultural function of promoting psychological health.
culture, self-esteem, self-enhancement, self-protection, psychological health
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Gaertner, Lowell
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Sedikides, Constantine
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20 February 2025
Gaertner, Lowell
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Sedikides, Constantine
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Gaertner, Lowell and Sedikides, Constantine
(2025)
Socio-cultural influences on self-evaluation.
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Prislin, Radmila
(ed.)
Research Handbook on Social Influence.
Edward Elgar Publishing, .
(doi:10.4337/9781035309672.00029).
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The need for a positively valued self is a human universal. How that need manifests, however, is shaped by culture, which serves as a powerful form of normative and informational influence. This chapter reviews the empirical literature demonstrating that desire for high self-esteem and the corresponding motivations of self-enhancement and self-protection have (a) pancultural presence, (b) cultural manifestation, and (c) a pancultural function of promoting psychological health.
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Accepted/In Press date: 8 December 2023
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culture, self-esteem, self-enhancement, self-protection, psychological health
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Lowell Gaertner
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